School visit to Yarborough Academy

As part of my We Are Marshy Folk project I visited Yarborough Academy Year 5 on January 22nd. I talked to the students about Toothill, a huge Ice-Age mound that once acted as a look-out tower and would have been directly opposite their school. It was great to be able to talk to a class of eager and interested students about an area of town that doesn't normally get much attention. They went on to create their own mounds and islands thinking about what they would need to live and who and what they would want with them. They then used all sorts of different art materials to create a sea for their islands. It was lovely to see students drawing bridges across to each other's islands and making plans for communication! It's really lovely going out into schools, and giving talks, about this project having spent so long researching for it!